Tag: failure

Woohoo! I’m kicking off a new edition of Q & A’s! That’s right, for those of you that ask questions about specific things, I’ll be featuring them on a podcast one a weekly basis (might be Wednesday) and answer your questions as fully as…

Here we go! This is the last part of the quotient analysis! If you haven’t already done Part A or Part B, I suggest you hit the links on the left and do them before the last part. 13. Learning from defeat (a) Does…

I woke up this morning to a message on my LinkedIn. A man, who invests heavily into Crypto and does a lot of blockchain, denied coming onto my podcast to talk about both topics (it’s very common for those to do so because they’re…

There’s nothing like getting the “thank you for applying” email, right? Heck, just recently I went into a second-stage of an interview, only for them to tell me, “oh, well we think there are more qualified teachers.” Ha! The qualified teachers who just open…

Ahhh, thank you for asking the question and hopefully I have the answer! A listener from Iraq asked me, “my friend and I have been friends for years, but after a miscommunication, we stopped talking for several months. I tried reaching out to her…

Neither temporary defeat nor adversity amounts to failure in the mind of the person who looks upon it as a teacher that will teach some needed lesson. As a matter of fact, there is a great and lasting lesson in every reverse, and in…

Let me paint this picture of this life-turning night at Palo Verde High School back in May of 2005. I was a 300m intermediate-hurdler who was favored to at least make it to the Sunrise Regional Championships. I remember I failed miserably at the…

Some of you wonder why are you even reading some of my blog posts on how to win friends and listening to my podcasts on developing the confidence to win people? Why not just study the greatest man-winner of them all. The thing that…